I followed this great tutorial on Instructables to make a DIY star map and I thought I’d make one for my Grandson. After going through the tutorial and creating the star chart, I found that one of the stars in the sky that night was Mira. Mira is his Mom, my Daughter. Sadly, she passed…

In honor of my friend’s mother’s passing I CNC cut this sign for her. I used some leftover wood I had that was in great shape and use a 60 degree engraving bit, as that’s all I had at the moment. Using the X-Carve was tricky as usual, and I ended up rebuilding it along…

It took Amy over a year to convince me, but I finally relented and agreed to get a puppy. Stevie is the best thing that’s happened to us in awhile. I freaking love this amazing dog. Her name is Stevie Sandwich and she is the best dog ever. We named her Stevie after Colonel Steve…

I’ve had the good fortune in the past year of cutting two trees down and making them land exactly where I wanted. This is a combination of watching many Youtube videos on the subject and other online research. I basically followed these instructions, below. The trees were already dead and one was hollowed out from…

My RC Plane hobby began when I was a kid and my Dad bought me a radio control glider. I crashed it on the first flight. We repaired it and I crashed it again and again. Then he bought me a motorized plane, which I learned how to fly a bit better. Fast forward to…

Way back in 2016, I started to get very interested in getting a pilots license. I had been casually using X-Plane prior to this, but now started to take it more seriously. I built a mediocre flight sim control panel using off the shelf hardware from Saitek at first. In 2017, I decided to enroll…

I’ve been flying and crashing drones for a couple years now, got my FAA certification to fly commercially and recently renewed it. I studied for months, learning all about airspace, aerodynamics, weight and balance, FAA rules and radio communications. I spent the first two years flying with two Yuneec Typhoon H drones. Planning to fly…

Back in April of 2016, I heard the 99% Invisible Podcast about speech synthesizers. It was an enlightening look at Bell Labs Voder, the first speech synthesizer, which debuted at the Worlds Fair, in 1939. We had speech synthesizers back in 1939! But most of this episode was dedicated to SIGSALY. This was the codename…